Passion. People. Performance. Purpose

These “4 P’s” have guided Natalie in everything she’s done since she was young; from academics to her extensive soccer career at the collegiate and professional levels.
 
Born and raised in Upper Arlington, Ohio, soccer played an immense role in shaping Natalie into who she is today. Following years of elite level club soccer, she landed a scholarship to the University of Michigan where she was honored as a member of the Big Ten All Freshman Team. She continued her college career at the University of Kentucky, as Captain of the SEC program. Natalie graduated from UK with athletic accolades, and her B.S. in Accounting. Upon graduation, she pursued her life-long dream of competing at the professional level, where she played in the NWSL with the Chicago Red Stars.
 
Following her soccer career, Natalie began her professional career in public accounting with REA & Associates in Dublin, Ohio. She quickly realized that her desire to help families and impact people would be better suited in the financial planning industry. Her ambition was to combine her academic interest in Finance with her desire to serve people in a very important way—coaching them toward financial security to help them realize their biggest aspirations. Natalie joined Northwestern Mutual in 2016, and has since founded Forward Financial Partners.

Natalie resides in Clintonville, Ohio, and spends her days at the office in Upper Arlington surrounded by a community where her roots run deep. She also serves as a coach for the Upper Arlington Girls Soccer team, where she finds joy in giving back to young girls in the sport that gave her so much. Natalie fills her spare time with her most important people; her family and friends, as well as her dogs, Bakon and Fitzgerald. She enjoys exploring new restaurants and breweries around town, attending Columbus Crew games, and working on her newest hobby, golf.

Lending a hand in my community.

As part of Northwestern Mutual, I'm proud to help accelerate the search for better childhood cancer treatments while supporting families undergoing treatment, and survivors from late effects. Here are some of the organizations we partner with:

Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer (ALSF)

ALSF funds cancer research, raises awareness, and supports the families of children with cancer. Since 2012, Northwestern Mutual, its employees, and financial professionals like me have donated more than $20 million to support ALSF and fund over 400,000 research hours.

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Beads of Courage

Beads of Courage is an art-in-medicine program that helps kids with cancer tell their unique treatment story through colorful beads that are symbols of their courage.

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Here are my areas of expertise

Financial Planning

Insurance Protection Strategies

Life Insurance Strategies

Retirement Planning & Income Strategies

Education Planning & Funding

Disability Planning

Multigenerational Planning

Estate Planning

How Northwestern Mutual helps you live the life you want.

When people feel better about their money, good things happen—they become more confident and feel more secure. For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has helped people achieve the financial flexibility they need to live more and worry less.

Being a mutual company means Northwestern Mutual reports to its clients, not Wall Street. They don't believe in chasing fads or taking undue risk for short-term gains. Instead, they take a long-term approach—both in the way we help people plan to reach their goals, and in the way they do business. This has served their clients (and mine) well through all kinds of economic ups and downs, including wars, recessions, even the recent pandemic.

It's why I'm happy to be part of a company that's in it for the long-haul and prioritizes clients over profit.

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